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MOTHER GOOSE
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the nursery rhymes
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I Had a Little Nut Tree

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Visual Interpretations

Courting Time Care to dance?

Clothes Tell the Tale Who are these people?

Royal Giant Mini-tree

Textual/Historical Information

http://www.simonhuggins.com/uricon/classic/dahl_roald/nut_tree.htm A charming "A Little Nut Tree" by Roald Dahl

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madmonarchs/juana/juana_bio.htm A brief biography of Juana the Mad of Castile 1479-1555. The possible connection is to Catherine of Aragon, her sister and the first wife of Henry VIII.

Versions and Variants

Textual Versions and Variants - A complete listing of the versions and variants of this rhyme

Visual Versions and Variants - A comparative listing of all associated within Eclipse

Rhyme Specific Bibliography

I Had a Little Nut Tree And Other Story Rhymes. Illustrated by Fran Thatcher Ashland, OH: Landoll, Inc. 1991. 

Poston, Elizabeth. I Had a Little Nut Tree. Illustrated by William Stobbs. London, UK: Bodley Head, 1971.

 



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